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gold rush by vanillaiceys
Fandoms: ささやくように恋を唄う | Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau | Whispering You a Love Song (Manga)
07 Apr 2024
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The first time Aki saw Shiho, she didn’t yet know the singer’s name. And neither did the rest of the world.
The second time was several years later, during college. So was the third and fourth and hundredth time.
It was difficult to find a soul in her generation—or even beyond—that had never heard the name Izumi Shiho by this time. Laureley’s rise to stardom wasn’t a big surprise; after all, Aki had seen it when she was nameless. That burning glow, luminescent and transfixing. Even years ago, on that magazine page buried beneath all the others, Aki had seen something in her, and now everyone else did too.
Aki wasn’t usually one to get starstruck, but Shiho was unlike any star she’s seen before.
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dear aki, by vanillaiceys
Fandoms: ささやくように恋を唄う | Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau | Whispering You a Love Song (Manga)
13 Nov 2023
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Do you remember the day we met?
I do.
I remember us coinciding, by sweet serendipity or by wicked design. I remember your smile like the daybreak. I remember each word of yours like a hymn. Even in that first glance, I somehow knew you were the line that would divide my life in two.
One letter, two concurrent loves.
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and i love how you are by vanillaiceys
Fandoms: ささやくように恋を唄う | Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau | Whispering You a Love Song (Manga)
23 Oct 2023
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Izumi Shiho certainly doesn’t participate in trivial affairs such as longing. But she can’t lie to herself—she hasn’t been able to get Aki off her mind.
She thinks about Aki in the morning, until the latter sends her a good morning text as is ritual for them, and then she thinks about her more. She thinks about what Aki might be doing during the day, where she might be going, who she might be talking to. She thinks about what other faces Aki could be seeing, what other hearts she could be keeping. She thinks about Aki in every song she writes, every melody she strums.
And she thinks about whether Aki thinks these kinds of foolish things too.
A few months after their high school graduation, Shiho wonders where she and Aki stand.
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the first by vanillaiceys
Fandoms: ささやくように恋を唄う | Sasayaku You ni Koi wo Utau | Whispering You a Love Song (Manga)
24 Jun 2023
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You think you know now, that this is why the battlefields are littered with flowers after the bloodshed, why the poets never cease in their pursuit of alchemizing something so intangible and so divine into prose. This is what all the songs you listened to attempted to capture, over and over, in countless different tongues and tunes. Really, you think you’ve known since back then, since that first moment she spoke to you.
Six times Shiho falls for Aki, and one time she leaves.